To report ex friend who looked at my medical files?

Ah, ok , well it's a sackable offence and could also result in legal proceedings. It's absolutely despicable of the person who did this and they would have known the consequences.

She didn't realise it was an issue earlier

It's not the victims fault someone illegally accessed their records.

However Victim is responsible for reporting it if she knew about it.

It's a good question, why didn't victim report it earlier?

No it isn't.

It's a simple question.

OP wasn't bothered enough to report it at the time and didn't even consider that her "friend" might also be doing it to other people.

Now that OP has been "back-stabbed" she wants something done.

Where I work there are warnings, and it logs who has looked at people's files. As it rightly should.

Report her OP. I work in the NHS and would be sacked if I did this.

Classic victim blaming..

OP is a victim and should be treated as such

You should have ideally reported her when you first found out but you are the victim here and it takes time for some victims to realise the true nature of the crime and report it so go ahead.

I fell out with my daughter 6 years ago.We were very close infection like sisters. I met a lovely guy who is now my partner.My daughter was fine with it until he moved in.She became very vocal and eventually she stopped talking to us.Since then I have had a TIA,Broken ankle, blue lighted to hospital and no contact was made.I was at the hospital one day going to see my consultant and she is a nurse there and passed me shoulder ti shoulder.Now she wants to make contact with me but I am very unsure regarding this.

This absolutely needs to be reported. You should have done this at the time and I honestly don't understand why you didn't. I work in a field with access to lots and lots of privileged data for probably everyone in the UK and we are taught it is sacred and accessing data like this is rightfully treated as gross misconduct. It is drummed into everyone from day 1.

I don't like your reasoning as to why you are thinking of reporting her now but for me this would be a black and white issue. To look and then comment to you about it is crazy and shows either a considerable lack of understanding or a massive lack of judgement which only raises more alarm bells with this individual as if she has done this to you there is a chance she's has either done this or is capable of doing to others. All of us deserve to know that data stored about us is safe and secure.

People are given restricted access to your medical information. A lay person would not be given any permission without your say so. This us a stackable offence. Even consultants and hospital doctors need your permission. You need to report this total breech.

I wouldn't report her but I'd tell a few people that she looked at your records.

I worked for a govt dept and a couple of daters were looking up men from dating profiles to see if they were married or not. It came to light and they said sorry. Missed one increment.

I'm a nurse various family member and friends have asked me to look at their medical records to get results or explain things.....never once have I done this due to this issue.

Let's be honest if you had a doctor in your family or was friends with one you would ask their opinion on certain medical things....off course you would.

When it's suits the family member/friend it's OK to bend the rules a bit but the min you fall out or have an argument you could lose your job no thank you not worth the hassle.

Because now she's really taking the piss. Clearly op has never forgiven the incident ( rightly so) and now said "friend" is going about spouting bullshit about op. I'd feel inclined to get her back in her box too.
But tbf this should have been reported at the time, easy said I know. I suppose then op didn't know how much it would worry her.
Friend is clearly a bit of a dick, what destruction could she do when she knows she's in trouble op?

They will say but she doesn't.... then you'll be left not knowing if she still is or not. If they knew she already had there would have been consequences.

I had a friend who currently works as a Doctors Receptionist and she was having an affair with a married man, whenever he or his wife came in for themselves or their children, she would look up why afterwards. The first time she did this was because she didn't know where he lived, so she looked at his records to find his address and then when we hung out later that evening, she drove to his house and we sat outside for about five minutes before we left again because someone looked out the window and she panicked. (I didn't know what was going on at the time or where we were otherwise I'd have refused to even go in the first place!) even after that incident, she would tell me why he or she came in, so she was breaking confidentiality there too. As well as this, she looked up and old colleague we knew who sort of dropped off the face of the earth when she left the company we both worked for (not in the medical field) and she looked up their records to find their phone number to text them because they weren't on social media.

So for anyone saying that this is likely a false story or unlikely to be true because of lack of access to records and such, it does happen and it can happen quite easily.

Also, no we're not friends anymore for obvious reasons!

It's a total violation of privacy. So what if it's seen as revenge now to report her, she deserves to be reprimanded.

So why didn't you report it then, and why now?

What are you going to do @LadyInRainbow ?

Lots of good advice here, especially from people working in the same field as her.

That's one way of looking at it. I'd say the friend did something that is totally illegal and op protected her by not reporting it at the time because of the friendship. Now that friendship doesn't really exist, shouldn't the friend face the consequences of her actions?

People who abuse their access to confidential records OUGHT to be sacked.

Kayla I think the op is saying now they are not friends any more she is worried ex friend will keep doing this

Also those saying it’s tit for tat I think the op is worried that now they are not friends she will just keep on looking at her records. It’s one thing a friend doing it but quite another thing an enemy. Reporting her would mean it would stop

I would tell her to pack it in or you will report her and yes they will be able to trace if she has looked at your records.
if she says she does not care tell her you are reporting her. Even if you don’t it will make her sweat

Not true. You can access friends, neighbours etc medical notes in the course of your work, unless that person requested you not to be. In fact, many of the admin staff in my local surgery live in the same village as the surgery. Obviously all info needs to be kept confidential.